Ninebark in need of pruning... BAD!

mystic_dragon72(6b)May 2, 2010

This is what the Ninebark that is growing next to my house looks like this year... very few leaves and it didn't bloom at all! When I bent a couple of the "dead" sticks they are green inside.. We're going to prune it back severely in the fall and hopefully it will come back like it was last year.

Kewl... thanks for the info! I really didn't want to wait the whole summer with a scruffy lookin bush as we're going to be planting a bunch of beds... one of them beside this bush as you can see in the last photo. Being able to prune it back to make it neater as well as healthier would be a good thing... even if it's more work. LOL.